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They never had any decency.
Author: TriSec    Date: 08/20/2022 11:09:56

You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?


Everything is a target.


Doctors and other staff who care for transgender children at Boston Children’s Hospital are facing a barrage of threats and harassment that started last week with an online campaign, prompting the hospital to seek help from law enforcement and remove doctors’ names and images from its website.

The hospital, which in 2007 established the nation’s first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program, issued a statement late Tuesday saying that it “has been the target of a large volume of hostile internet activity, phone calls, and harassing emails including threats of violence toward our clinicians and staff.”

“We are deeply concerned by these attacks on our clinicians and staff fueled by misinformation and a lack of understanding and respect for our transgender community,” the statement said.

The targeted clinicians work in the hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service Program, where they care for children and young adults with gender dysphoria, a condition in which people identify with a sex that’s different from the one assigned at birth.

Such “gender-affirming care” has become a flashpoint on the far right, which falsely accuses caregivers of “carving up” children to change their sex. In fact, gender-affirming care starts with prolonged counseling, sometimes followed by hormonal treatments and surgery. Contrary to the online accusations, Boston Children’s said it does not perform genital surgery on people under age 18. The hospital does breast surgery on children as young as 15 in certain circumstances and with parental consent.

Doctors associated with the clinic did not respond to requests for comment, and the hospital did not make anyone available for an interview.

“We condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms, and we reject the false narrative upon which they are based,” the hospital’s statement said. “We are working with law enforcement to protect our clinicians, staff, patients, families, and the broader Boston Children’s community and hold the offenders accountable. We will continue to take all appropriate measures to protect our people.”


This is not from a dystopian novel. It was front-page news on the Boston Globe a few days ago.

Patients with conditions that the Trumpeo-Christion Americans disagree with are now targets. It's Medical Care; something our Mayor Wu has gone on to specify.


Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday reacted to the harassment and threats being leveled at Boston Children’s Hospital, attacks which the institution says began flooding in after misinformation about its transgender health program went viral.

“This is medical care,” Wu said during an appearance on GBH’s “Boston Public Radio.” “This is one of the preeminent, most renowned medical institutions in the country, doing what they do best — which is providing important, necessary care for the health and wellbeing of our community members.”

The onslaught against the hospital started last week when a conservative Twitter account posted a range of false information about the services provided by the hospital.

“The article and online attention that has followed was based on the incorrect statement that Boston Children’s performs hysterectomies on minors in connection with transgender care,” the hospital said in a statement earlier this week. “For a hysterectomy performed as part of gender-affirming care, Boston Children’s requires a patient to be capable of consenting for themselves. Age 18 is used to reflect the standard age of majority for medical decision-making. Boston Children’s does not — and will not — perform a hysterectomy as part of gender-affirming care on a patient under the age of 18.”


Whether or not we care to admit it to ourselves, we are now at war with ourselves. It's been coming since election day 2016 - this can no longer be the United States given how far apart we as a society have become.
 

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